Kawhi-Lights

[spursistan]

Kawhi = Terrence Jones very much, very similar in talent, only one is more marketable and play for Spurs that maximize his game and hide weaknesses...

[spurraider21]

awesome. the drive and dish to west was beautiful

[apalisoc_9]

awesome. the drive and dish to west was beautiful

That post up at 1:23....Would have been a fadeway jumper with Splitter on the floor.

[spurraider21]

That post up at 1:23....Would have been a fadeway jumper with Splitter on the floor.

yeah that was a really smooth finish... and the very next highlight was a post-up that led to an assist for an Aldridge jumper, going back to what you said. against atlanta he woulda forced that shot up imo

[dabom]

The Spurs are paying LMA $20 Million knowing he's an offensive player. You DON'T want him to be the leading scorer? And that doesn't mention that 20 LMA points should be better for the offense than 20 Kawhi points.

Kawhi has a way better TS% than LMA. By far! Those 20 kawhi points are better than those 20 lma points.

Kawhi was averaging like 18ppg to end the last season on limited minutes. Don't give me this bull he can't average 20 a game going into his prime

There will be an interesting dynamic between our two best players not named Duncan.

Kawhi is an absolute elite defensive player who is working hard to become a good offensive player.

LaMarcus is an elite offensive player who (hopefully) will work hard to become a good defensive player. Initial signs are positive.

I would be surprised if Kawhi scores more ppg than LaMarcus this season. But that does not mean LaMarcus is the better player.

Totally agree Bill. I give the edge to KAwhi in the scoring department because he is accustomed to the system and is going to get more minutes.

Who the would make a video just for that?

Anyway, yeah, there are a TON of poor shots in that video. Baseline fadeaways off cross court dribbles with 15 seconds left on the shot clock? Disgusting. Face-up jumpers with multiple teammates open beyond the arc? Yeah, not good. And these are his highlights. His shot-selection does suck.

What he did that I really liked in that vid is that he attacked mismatches. He used his speed against big guys and overpowered smalls. His highlights were almost exclusively in these situations, which is what you want. It also implies that he has less success against defenders his own size, which is to be expected. It's that diet of shots that he needs to cut back on, though, as well as early clock two-pointers.

It's really cool that Kawhi has the talent to make these plays work as much as they do. But that doesn't make those plays good for the offense at all.



Just because he doesn't have a better shot doesn't mean the TEAM doesn't have a better one. That's why Kawhi can't just jack up midrange shots all day. They're bad for a team, and if they're the best he can do, he needs to shoot less until that changes. Obviously things are different when he goes into big-head mode. But that's true of ever player.

Kawhi chuck. Lmao. The smear campaign by Chinook. Kawhi averages 60%TS.

No, and at this point it's getting a little disingenuous. We're not talking about the majority of Kawhi's game. We're talking about the Hawks game and how that offensive gameplan looks. As I said to dabom, Kawhi didn't seem to iso much at all in the post-All Star highlight vids I watched. He got most of his unassisted buckets in transition and some PnR. Most of the rest were post-ups on mismatches. Those are good shots, and ones I hope are a part of any Leonard-centric offense. The issue isn't that Kawhi doesn't take a lot of good shots. It's that he takes some iso jumpers that are NOT good shots. And those need to go the way of the dinosaur. He barely took any of those in the highlight vids from last year's regular season. So it seems pretty clear to me that Leonard can be the focus of the offense while leaving the jumpers he was taking the Hawks games on the practice court.





He's not KD and shouldn't even try to play in the offense KD has played in. That's both because he and Durant have different strengths and because Durant has been in bad offense so far.



The video only showed his makes. He only had six makes. So if he had one bad shot in that vid, then it was one of six.



Leonard was a star for two months. Green was a three-and-D player who scored 15.8 pp36 over that same two-month span. You're trying to question Green's consistency, chaulking it up to "team production", when Danny was still at 14.3 pp36 while Kawhi was dealing with his consistency issues. Green is a career 14.1 pp36 guy who's actually had a year where he averaged even more than 15.8 pp36. Which is seems to more sustainable? This isn't Kawhi vs Green in any way. I'm just pointing out that Danny a much larger sample of being a fourth-option scorer and you seem to have no issue dismissing the notion he can keep it up.



I'm not making projections. I'm evaluating the past. Leonard's offense in the Hawks game was bad. That's not what anyone should be happy about. That's not even how he played last year. IF that's how he played in the regular season, IF people are satisfied with that last game, they'll get a poor scorer. I simply said he has to be better than the Hawks game, both in results and in shot-selection. It shouldn't even be debatable.



A Kawhiso offense IS a chucking offense. An offense that integrates Kawhi and that doesn't force feed him the ball is not one. The question is if Pop is going to have Kawhi play like he did in the regular season last year or have him play like did against the Clippers. The regular-season offense was a lot of attacking close-outs, running in transition, cutting to the basket and running simple PnRs. The post-season offense was a lot of post-ups and isos. It was great when he had the mismatch, and it was horrible sometimes when he didn't. The Hawks game was closer to the Clippers series, and that's why it should be panned. That level of explosion isn't sustainable if he's going to just go against the best defender every night.

The usual suspects with the goods and Chinook with the bads this thread.